News from Ryan

Something to help ease those "January Blues!!" :-)  

Hey everyone!!  

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! Thanks so much for all the support as always!  

I thought over the holiday period I'd add a few acoustic videos to my YouTube page as its been a while since I've done that, so I uploaded three songs I haven't sang in a while. I hope you liked them! For anyone who hasn't seen them yet, you can find them right here : Link to RK Music YouTube Page Enjoy! :-)  

So, I've been kept pretty busy recently finishing the writing and recording of our new Byrne and Kelly album with Neil. We're close to finishing it and hope to release the album by early March, before we go out and tour it in March/April in the US. The tickets have been selling really quickly for the tour, so thank you so much for those of you who have bought tickets so far! The shows are gonna be pretty unique, with Neil and myself basically playing through the new album song by song and talking about each song individually - and what inspired us to write it. We'll also be answering any other questions posed to us as well - so it should be pretty interesting!! The details of all the shows and tickets to them can be found here as well : Byrne and Kelly Album Launch Acoustic Tour 

Lastly, I first of all want to congratulate again those who were chosen as winners of the exclusive signed 12" x 17" prints of Larry and myself. Those prints have been signed and posted out and should be with the winners any day now.  

I actually really liked the print so much that I decided to get another two commissioned (shown below) and want to offer them as prizes as well - as a "thank you" to brighten up the January blues! :-) As I said, the prints are 12 inches x 17 inches and I will sign them (and Larry too if you wish!!) to whomever the winners would like me to personalise them to for your wall. I'll leave this competition open to anyone who orders ANYTHING from my online shop on the website from now until Valentine's Day (14th February 2016), when Larry and myself will choose two deserving winners at random! Again, these are photos that aren't in the calendar, nor on any website - so they really are exclusive to the winners!! You can enter the competition by ordering any item (albums or the calendar) from here and, as always, additional orders will mean additional entries into the hat for you!! :-) Link to RK Online Store 

Good luck to all who enter and thanks as always for all your support!!! :-)  

Love,  

RK xx

A New Year, new beginnings, new winners and a lot of thank yous!!! :-) 


Hey everyone! 

Just dropping in here on the 31st December to wish you all a very Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great Christmas with your loved ones and are raring to go for 2016! :-) 

As always, I want to say a special word of thanks to all of you who have been so kind to support me and my music over the past twelve months. Again, I couldn't do any of this without you. I've loved being out on the various tours and meeting you along the way to personally say "thanks" and look forward to a very busy 2016 - with a new "Byrne and Kelly" original album along with Neil nearly ready to release along with some B&K tours, a new PBS special, "Legacy" with Celtic Thunder due out in the Spring and extensive touring of the new show during the year in Australia and North America, along with other stuff in the pipeline yet to be confirmed, it's going to be busy - just the way I like it!! :-) 

I do want to say a special word of thanks to all of you who ordered the 2016 calendars of my side-kick Larry over the past few months! The response has been fantastic and, by all accounts, you're enjoying the thought of having him on the wall for the next twelve months! If you still wish to order one for the New Year, please just click on the link here : Larry Kelly 2016 Calendar
I'm happy to also announce that the winners of a special exclusive signed print from the photoshoot that does not feature in the calendar are as follows : Rebecca Domalenski, Jenny Elliott, Betty Sue Zant, Jean Fox and Laurie Verlardi!!! Congratulations to you all and sorry to all those who entered but didn't win! Don't worry, I'll think of more competitions soon!! These winners join the previous two winners (Alice Spring and Sheila Harting) and will be receiving the signed exclusive prints very soon!! 

So, I thought, for the day that it is, I'd record a few acoustic songs for you from my living room beside the fire this afternoon (with Larry actually lying at my feet!). I chose two songs I haven't actually sang in quite a while, "Broken Things" from my first album, and "Talkin' Bout A Revolution" by Tracy Chapman. They're two songs I love lyrically and hope you enjoy them too... 

In the meantime, again I wish you all a very happy New Year. Here's to making good memories in 2016 and, whether I see you along the road, receive a message or chat online, receive a letter from you or you simply listen to my music along the way, please know that I appreciate every last effort you make. 

Take care and God Bless....

RK xx








 

Still Time For a "Very Larry Christmas!" :-) 

Hey folks! 

So, just a quick message to let you know that, with only a few weeks now til Christmas, we've decided to extend the Black Friday Weekend promotion on the Larry Kelly calendars so that you can still get a 2016 calendar at the reduced rate of 30% percent off!!! Furthermore, if you let me know in your order who you'd like myself and Larry to sign the calendars to (if you'd like them to give as gifts, or even just for yourself!), we'd be happy to sign them and get them back to you in time to put under the tree for whomever you'd like - and give someone a whole year of Larry Kelly to look at!! :-)
 

I'm also still running the "Three Calendars For The Price of Two" promotion, so, when ordering two calendars, just let me know who you'd like the third, free calendar personalised to as well! Additionally, anyone who orders a calendar will automatically be in with a chance of getting a personalized signed “out-take” print from the photo shoot of Larry and myself – with five of these personalised prints to be won!! 

So, if you'd like to get any of the personalised calendars signed and sent out to you to make it in time for Christmas, just place an order right here and Larry and myself will get to it straight away!! : ​Calendars and Other Stuff! :-)

Thanks as always for all your support. I'm loving your messages and photos you're sending me with the signed calendars. Larry is definitely becoming more of a celebrity by the day!! :-)

Love, 

RK xx

Birthdays, Prize-winners and Christmas Gift Idea Special Deals! :-) 

So folks, I’ve a few things to chat about today!

Firstly, thank you so much for all the very kind birthday wishes, cards and gifts you sent my way for my birthday last week. It really was great to be home and not on tour (for the first time in eight years!!), but reading your comments and cards on the day still meant I had that connection to you all - which is so very important to me.

Secondly, as many of you know, it’s a certain wee Boston Terrier’s second birthday today! Yes, Larry Kelly has reached the ripe old age of two – and is acting even more of a diva on his birthday than usual!!!

We finally got to choose the two winners of the framed signed “outtake” photos from the photo shoot. I wrote all the name of those who had purchased a calendar so far and put them in a hat and had Larry grab two names. After slobbering around for a while (I so wish I’d videoed the process!) he came up with two pieces of paper! I’m happy to announce that the two winners are...... Alice Spring and Sheila Harting!!! So, congratulations to you both. I’ll be sending the signed prints out this week. Thank you also to all of you who took part in the competition…… which brings me on to the second part of this message! :-)

In seeing the response to the competition, it seemed totally unfair to me that I only had two winners, so – I’m going to run one more competition for anyone who would like to be in with a chance of getting a personalized signed “out-take” print from the photo shoot of Larry and myself – and this time I’ll extend it to FIVE WINNERS  - with every order giving you a chance to win!
 
Oh, and, most importantly, because it’s Larry’s birthday, and we thought people may like to give the calendars as present coming up to the Holidays, WE'D LIKE TO GIVE EVERYONE WHO ORDERS TWO CALENDARS A THIRD ONE FREE!!! So, just order two calendars, stipulate who you’d like Larry and I to sign them to (if you’d like them personalised for you or as a gift to someone else) and we’ll throw in a third one as a gift from us! (also let us know who you’d like the third one signed for!). Don’t worry, if you just would like to order one, that’s still totally fine and your name will be in the draw for the signed “out-take” print as well!

We’ll make the closing date for the competition for the signed prints one month from today (14th December) to give us a chance to sign them and get them out to you before Christmas!!! Good luck!! 

The link to find the calendars is right here :
Larry Calendars
 
So, I better get back to Larry’s birthday party – thanks so much for everything as always folks – your support means the absolute world to me. Lots of love from us both…. :-)
 
RK xx




 

A Special Prize To Say "Thank You" From Both Of Us... :-) 

Hey again folks! 

So I thought I’d drop you a quick line just to say thank you so much for your amazing response to Larry’s exclusive 16-month calendar! Reading your comments about how much you love seeing his wee face on your wall and seeing your photos of where you’ve been posting them and even shots of your own pets staring at it thinking, “who’s this guy?!?! “ has been brilliant!!  :-)

Anyway, the response has got me thinking about running a competition! I have a special photo of Larry and myself that I kept especially (which is not in the calendar), to give as a prize to whomever’s name I/or Larry(!!) pulls out of a hat. For every calendar you buy, I’ll write your name down to go into the hat. So two calendars = two chances to win etc… Don’t worry, the existing purchases will also be included!!

So, every calendar ordered now will be personalized by me to you and your name will go into the draw to receive one of two framed, personalized, signed photos – a photo no one else will have!! – which I will send (and get Larry to sign if you wish!) on my return home from tour.

All orders up to and including the final date of our current Byrne and Kelly tour (finishing up in Australia on the 25th October) will be included!!

Good luck and thanks so much again for all the support!! I know the real star in my house is very satisfied (and probably not so humbled!!) by your kind words and his new found fame!!! :-)

Oh, you can order your calendar by clicking right here 

Take care,
RK xx


A Mother's Day Present.... :-) 

Hey everyone out there!! Getting ready to get on a plane to leave North America after both tours with Celtic Thunder and Lesley Pike have come to an end - and I must say I've loved every minute of them, but can't wait to get home and see my family - and, of course, Larry!! Now, I'm heading back home to get right back into writing for Byrne and Kelly's new album with Neil and also preparing for two extensive tours this summer! 
However, first of all, I thought I'd like to mark this Mother's Day with a special song that I recently heard and loved from Garth Brooks. The sentiment of an unborn child talking to God about his/her anxiety about going into the big bad world, but God reassuring that he/she is getting ready to meet the most amazing person they'll ever know on the Earth - their mother - is something that just got to my heart. On a personal level, my mother is the most amazing woman I've ever met and I dedicate this song to her and to all you mothers out there - you are our rocks, you mean the world to us.... 

Thanks for listening folks and chat to you soon...

Love, RK xx

It's been a while since I checked in - and posted a video!! :-) 

Hey folks! 

Hope you are all well! Just a quick note here from Abbotsford, British Columbia as this "Very Best Of Celtic Thunder" tour keeps rolling on now into Canada after what has been a brilliant few weeks so far already! Getting to sing the "old favourite" songs from the bygone years of CT again has been really brilliant. As have the audience reactions to them! It's like we've turned full circle from those days back on the first tours in 2008 when I was coming on stage a complete novice, not believing this whole thing was a reality! Here I am, seven years later, much older and decrepit-looking, but actually loving it more than ever before!! Long may that continue!! :-)

And talking of loving the music, I've been spending the last while working with Neil, Nicole and Peter writing a lot of original songs for a new "Byrne and Kelly" album which is really taking shape! We're all loving the process and the sounds and images that are flowing from the writing sessions and can't wait to get them out there for you to hear!!! 

In the meantime, we're hoping to debut some of these brand new tracks at our Stageit online live concert in April - which I believe is close to selling out!! (details here : https://www.stageit.com/byrne_and_kelly/live_in_the_studio/44189) and we're putting together the finishing touches of our tour schedule for Summer/Autumn 2015 - so there's a lot of exciting times ahead!! 

Of course, I also am looking forward to squeezing in a bit of time at home in between to see my wee best friend Larry, who's fan base and popularity exceeds mine by more and more every day - which I can totally understand and, in fact, agree with as well! :-) Just on that note though, I want to take this time to say thank you once more for all your generosity to me - through your kind messages, cards, gifts or taking the time to read my nonsense, listen to my music, or log on to one of my pages. It truly makes me feel very humbled and honoured to be lucky enough to do what I do.

And so, I thought, I'd post this video for you. I sang this song on a recent web chat and a lot of you requested a version of it. Yes, the language may be a little strong, but I feel this song from Damien Rice just speaks volumes and reminds me why I love his style of song-writing - honest, real and true. It's what I try to do in my own performances and writing. And aspire to get better and better at that. 

Thanks for reading and sharing my music, thanks for your support and kindness. You make life good... :-)

Love always, 
RK xx


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